ECON438, Empirical Methods in Economics, Notes, Papers, and Homework

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Syllabus

Excel Regression Package (This may be changed)

Excel Regression Package (F Tests)

The t Value Table (Source: Biostatistics for Dummies)

The F Value Table (Source: Greene, Textbook)

Rogers- Steel Demand -1987

Electrical Equipment Study -1982

Kremer -1987

A Possibly Useful Dataset World GDP 1- 2009 AD Maddison

Dataset for Homeworks II and III

Homework Directions

Homework I

Homework II

Homework III

Directions and Paper Outline

Class Participation

Sample Questions for Mid-Term Test

Sample Questions for Final Test

Introduction

Three Examples of Regression

Doing Simple OLS Regression

Notes OLS Regression

The Assumption of the OLS Regression

The Hypothesis Testing

The t and F Tests

Specification – Omitted Variables and Irrelevant Variables

Setting up the Paper

Theory and Econometrics

Econometrics and its Estimation Problems I

Econometrics and its Estimation Problems II (Autocorrelation)

Econometrics and its Estimation Problems III (Endogeneity)